Valerie Jenness,
Professor in University of California, Irvine is endowed with multiple
attributes in her personality. She served as Visiting Professor in the
Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
(UCSB) and prior to that was a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Institute
for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She was
also Dean of the School of Social Ecology from 2009 to 2015 and Chair of
the Department of Criminology, Law and Society from 2001-2006.

Her
credentials involve groundbreaking work on the prostitutes’ rights
movement, hate crime, sexual assault in prison, transgender women in
prisons for men and grievance systems in prisons. She spearheaded the
first complete study of transgender women in men’s prisons.

Her
blog on Hate Crime Law which inculcates Hate crime, harassment,
intimidation, or physical violence that is motivated by a bias against
characteristics of the victim considered integral to his social
identity, such as his race, ethnicity, or religion. Another blog deals
with the Crime Control and Criminalization in the U.S. It is a complex
maze of politics, controversy and intrigue deliberated on political
platforms, by religious institutions and incorporated in multiple
sociological studies. Multiple studies concerning ‘effectiveness of
incarceration’ in the United States dictates deterrence as the only
advantage but deemed ineffective and counterproductive in general. To
counteract these issues, alternative strategies includes effective gun
control, decriminalization of illicit drugs, prevention of child abuse
and neglect, amelioration of poverty, and intervention with at-risk
youngsters.

Her versatile authoring includes books on Appealing
to Justice, Routing to Opposition, Making Hate a Crime, Making it Work
and Hate Crimes.